Draft:Richard Mafundi Lake

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Declined by Mattdaviesfsic 22 months ago. Last edited by FloridaArmy 14 days ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Comment: With these sources (and undoubtedly, there will be more, this article could easily be expanded. Leaving to submitter to work on if they think they could. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 19:55, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Mafundi should link here

Richard Lake, who went by the name Mafundi, (1940-2018)^[1] was an organizer against police brutality in Alabama who was sentenced to life in prison in 1983.^[2]^[3] He was one of the founders of Inmates for Action.^[4]^[5]

Richard Lake was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1940.^[6]

In 1983 he was sentenced to life under Alabama's Habitual Offender statute.^[7] Lake, along with fellow Atmore-Holman inmate Johnny Harris led a work strike, which subsequently transformed into a rebellion following the death of a guard.^[8]^[9]

He was interviewed on video.^[10]

He was admitted to the infirmary of Donaldson Correctional Facility where he died on January 21, 2018.^[6]^[9]

Sentenced to or required to do "hard labor"? He was released? He died in prison? I'm seeing come conflicting accounts. Seems he died in prison? What were is earlier crimes that were used to qualify him as a habitual offender?

References

^ "Race Treaty: Remembering and Honoring Richard Mafundi Lake (1940-2018) – BLACK TALK RADIO NETWORK™". Retrieved 2022-10-31.
^ "Freedom Archives Search Engine". search.freedomarchives.org. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
^ Chestnut, J. (1990). Black in Selma-22.95. Nelson Bibles. pp. 296–300. ISBN 978-5-553-53309-0.
^ "Black August Resistance 2018: Remembering the Inmates for Action". libcom.org. 2018-09-28. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
^ Novick, Michael. "Building a Culture and Communities of Solidarity, Resistance and Liberation" (PDF).
^ ^a ^b "Vol 1; Issue 2 by la_blackcross - Issuu". Black Cross Bulletin. Vol. 1, no. 2. 2018-03-20. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
^ https://search.freedomarchives.org/search.php?view_collection=1044&no_digital=1&subject%5B%5D=Political+Prisoners
^ Perry, Imani (2018-07-01). "As Goes the South, So Goes the Nation: Permitless carry and the new gun-rights extremism". Harper's Magazine. Vol. July 2018. ISSN 0017-789X. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
^ ^a ^b Perry, Imani (2022-01-25). South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-297738-0.
^ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tAvpc3g-bUE

[1] "Race Treaty: Remembering and Honoring Richard Mafundi Lake (1940-2018) – BLACK TALK RADIO NETWORK™". Retrieved 2022-10-31.

[2] "Freedom Archives Search Engine". search.freedomarchives.org. Retrieved 2022-02-13.

[selma-3] Chestnut, J. (1990). Black in Selma-22.95. Nelson Bibles. pp. 296–300. ISBN 978-5-553-53309-0.

[4] "Black August Resistance 2018: Remembering the Inmates for Action". libcom.org. 2018-09-28. Retrieved 2022-10-31.

[5] Novick, Michael. "Building a Culture and Communities of Solidarity, Resistance and Liberation" (PDF).

[bd-6] "Vol 1; Issue 2 by la_blackcross - Issuu". Black Cross Bulletin. Vol. 1, no. 2. 2018-03-20. Retrieved 2022-10-31.

[7] ttps://search.freedomarchives.org/search.php?view_collection=1044&no_digital=1&subject%5B%5D=Political+Prisoners

[perry-8] Perry, Imani (2018-07-01). "As Goes the South, So Goes the Nation: Permitless carry and the new gun-rights extremism". Harper's Magazine. Vol. July 2018. ISSN 0017-789X. Retrieved 2022-02-13.

[south-9] Perry, Imani (2022-01-25). South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-297738-0.

[10] ttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tAvpc3g-bUE

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